Fuse-cap magazine.



F.1. SHPPARD.

FUSE CAP MAGAZINE.

APPECATION FlLED 1UNE1| 1917.

Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

Illw ii siding at Birmingham,

`ferson and State of Alabama, have invented FRED J. SHEPPRD, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

FUSE-CAP MAGAZI'E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

Application led June v1, 1917. Serial No. 172,189.

T 0 all ywhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED J. SHEPPARD, a citizen of the United States of America, rein the county of Jefcertain new and useful Improvements in Fuse-Cap Magazines, of which the following is a specification. D

My invention relates to a magazine or container having separate compartments adapted to receive fuse caps or other detonators..

The object of my invention is to design a magazine which within agiven compass will carry the maximum number -of caps and which is adapted to permit only one cap tobe discharged at a time, thus rendering it impossible for a; cap to fall. casually from the maga-zine.

It is my purpose with a Yfiat oblong conveniently carried in the pocket and in to form themagazine order to adapt' such a Vmagazine'to carry' the maximum number of caps, I have provided it along its top and bottom edges with slide covers which are substantially equal in length with the magazine and each of which covers c-arries a single cap discharge opening. The cap compartments at one end of the magazine open through one edge thereof while the compartments at the other end open through the opposite edge,\thus adapting each cover to control one half of the compartments. It is important that the covers should be so designed that both can not be moved into discharging position without it being noticeable to the user even when haii/[dlin'g the magazine in the dark.

y rious details of construction and arrangements of parts which are hereinafter pointed out in the appended claims and which,

in their preferred embodiment only, are` view of 1, with shape so that it cari beinvention further comprises the va' metallic. The top and bottom edges of the magazine are longitudinally grooved to form a dove-tail cover seat 2 opening through the edges of the magazine and adapted each to receive a slidable cover 3' o r 4, as the case may be, these covers being similar but being'separately designated for convenience. These slide covers are preferably equal in length with the magazine so that they fill out the dove-tail seats 2 when in initial position and each is provided at lts center with a cap discharge hole 5. In ther base of each seat 2 I provide a longi tudinal groove 6 which in one edge of the magazine extends from near the left hand end practically to the center while in the other edge of the magazine it extends from near the right hand end to the center. Each cover' carries a set screw 7 near one end thereof which has a tip adapted to be received in its respective groove 6 and it movement of the cover as its hole 5 comes.

successively opposite the cap compartments or pockets 12 which it controls. These recesses 11 are arranged between the screw 7 and the central hole 5 in each cover and are spaced to correspond with the spacing of the cap pockets. As shown, there are six of these cap pockets in each end of the magazine', those .in one end o peningthrough one edge and those in the other end opening through the opposite edge. In the bottom of each pocket is a felt pad 13 and the covers are made of wood liber or other material not likely to cause the cap to explode.

Having assembled the parts in the manner described, the magazine is charged by shifting the upper cover successively over the pockets it controls and dropping the caps 14 through into the pockets and then moving the cover to closed position, after which the magazine is inverted and in like manner ,the other pockets are filled that are controlled by the other cover. When thus charged, kthe covers will close all the pockets and will not project beyond the magazine ends. To discharge the caps as they are required for use, the operator presses either cover in the direction in which it is free to travel and vin doing so shifts its hole 5 successively over the pockets 12 that it controls and by inverting the magathe same time and will thus insure only one cap being discharged at a time.

These magazines can be produced at comparatively small expense and can be formed so as to occupy the minimum space required to hold the desired number of-y caps.

Having thus described my invention,"what I claim as new and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is

l. A narrow elongated detonator magazine having top and bottom edgesV and alining pockets which in one half of the magazinc open only through one edge and in the other half of the magazine open only through the other edge, all of said pockets having substantially the full depth of the magazine, and a coverfor each of said edges having a single discharge hole adapted, as the cover is moved, to open one at a time the pkets that open through its respective e e.A

2. detonator magazine comprising a thin'frectangular body having two series of pockets, one series opening through one edge at one end only of the bodyiand the other series opening through the other edge of the other end only of the body, and a slide cover for each series of pockets of equal length with the whole body and having a discharge opening normally out ofregister with the pockets it respectively controls.

3. A detonator magazine com'prising athin rectangular body having two series of pockets, one series opening through one edge .of the bodyand the' otherl series opening through the other edge of the body, a slide cover for each' series of pockets of equal length with the body and having a central thin rectangular body having two series of reversely facing pockets, one series opening through 'one edge of theb'ody land the other series opening through the other edge of the body, a slide cover'for eachseries of pockets of equal length with the body and having a central discharge opening normally out of register with thel pockets 1t respectively con- Y trois, and means to limit the movement nf the cover 'toa travel of approximatelyhalf the length of the magazine.

5.'A detonator, magazine formed of a thin 'rectangular body having' a series. of

pockets 'formed therein, the pockets at one end opening'through one edge of the body andthe pockets at lthe other end opening V through the opposite edge of the body, said edges of the body being undercut to form cover guides, sliding coversl each substantially equal in length with the magazine and each mounted' in onel of said guides,

there being a central discharge opening in each cover` adapted to be moved successively into register with its #respective pockets, a yieldingylatcli means for each'cover comsov prising a spring pressed element and a plurality of countersunk seats to co-act therewith, said seats'being spaced to correspond with the spacing of the pockets, and means' to limit the travel of each cover .to approxil mately half the length of the magazine, substantially as described. 1

In testimony whereof, I aHX my signature.

'FRED J. SHEPPARD. Witness: y

. NoMIE WELSH. 

